
Take a walk through most offices and you’ll find it: a back room, a closet, maybe a whole floor, filled with furniture nobody is actively using. Extra chairs from a headcount that shrank. Desks from a department that moved. Seasonal pieces waiting for a season that hasn’t started yet.
None of it is doing anything for your organization. All of it is costing you rent.
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Did you know…
15-30% of office space is underutilized due to inefficient storage for furniture, equipment + supplies
$37/sf average RE office space |
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Office utilization climbed to 53 percent in 2026, up from just 38 percent in 2024. That’s a real rebound, but it also means that on any given day, roughly half of the office space organizations pay for still sits unused, and a meaningful share of that space is filled with furniture and equipment rather than people.
At the same time, the average asking rent for U.S. office space reached $37.58 per square foot in 2026. Every square foot used to store excess furniture gets billed at that same rate, whether it holds a person or a stack of chairs.
That’s the real cost of informal storage. It isn’t a line item anyone budgets for on purpose. It’s just space that quietly stops working for you.
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TYPICAL STORAGE FACILITY
Assets are stored in crates, and you pay for cubic feet of storage no matter if the crate is full or half empty. |
OUR PAY-AS-YOU-GO APPROACH
Auditable, transparent, and scalable storage that can vary monthly based on your fluctuating needs. |
A Different Kind of Storage Provider
Most storage vendors operate on a simple model: you rent a crate, a unit, or a section of a warehouse, and you pay for that space whether it’s full or empty. You call when you need something, and you wait. Visibility into what’s actually being stored is often limited to whatever the vendor tells you over the phone.
d’ploy works differently.
Every asset we store is inventoried, tagged, and photographed before it is stored in one of our facilities. Storage is pay-as-you-go and fully auditable, so clients aren’t paying for empty crate space. A single accountable team manages intake, storage, and redeployment, rather than a patchwork of subcontracted movers and storage brokers. And clients retain full visibility and control the entire time, without needing to call anyone.

danckerConnect: Visibility, On Your Terms
That visibility comes through danckerConnect, our secure online portal. It gives clients real-time access to their stored assets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, along with the ability to view quotes, orders, and invoices in one place.
From danckerConnect, clients can pull three types of reports:
- Inventory Reports, with a photo, condition, quantity, and dimensions for every stored item.
- Churn Reports, showing which asset categories are actively being used versus candidates for reduction, recycling, or donation.
- Cost Avoidance Reports, tracking redeployed value against ongoing storage and handling costs.
Instead of wondering what’s in storage or waiting on a callback to find out, clients can see it, and act on it, whenever they need to.

The Infrastructure Behind the Promise
None of this works without real infrastructure behind it. D’ploy operates 13 logistical facilities totaling more than 720,500 square feet nationally, including a dedicated healthcare logistics facility. Our trained team handles inventory intake, condition tracking, and redeployment for more than 80 clients and 750,000-plus assets.
That scale is what makes the promise credible. This isn’t a subcontracted patchwork of movers and storage brokers. It’s one team, one system, and one accountable partner managing the process from intake through redeployment.
Turning Idle Assets Into an On-Demand Resource
Excess furniture doesn’t have to sit quietly costing you rent, and it doesn’t have to disappear into a storage unit you can’t see into either. With the right partner, it becomes a tracked, on-demand resource: inventoried, visible, and ready to redeploy the moment you need it.
If your organization is storing furniture or equipment in space you’re paying premium rent for, it may be time for a different approach.
Curious what a smarter storage program could look like for your space? Connect with d’ploy to start the conversation.
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